Thursday's speech by Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Bullock is the main event out of Australia this week. However, it will be a U.S. jobs report that will determine where Friday's close is recorded.
The Australian dollar should manage to eke out further advances, with the help of a supportive central bank, but the process will be slow as China remains a constraint.
The Australian Dollar was higher against all its G10 counterparts after a monthly measure of inflation beat expectations.
The Pound and Australia are two of the FX market's outperformers, which has left the GBP/AUD exchange rate tracking a sideways trend.